Stress birefringent, space-variant wave plates for vortex illumination |
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Authors: | Spilman Alexis K Brown Thomas G |
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Affiliation: | The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA. alexis@optics.rochester.edu |
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Abstract: | We describe the use of stress birefringence in the creation of vortex illumination. A trifold symmetric stress pattern will provide an annular region that exhibits polarization vortices when illuminated with linearly polarized light and scalar vortices when illuminated with circularly polarized light. A finite element plane-stress model is used to analyze the space-variant anisotropy. |
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